Martin Lutz

Martin Lutz (born 19 May 1950) is a German church musician and harpsichordist.

Martin Lutz studied in Heidelberg Church Music ( A-exam ) and musicology, art history and ancient history at the University of Mainz.

He has been active since 1972 as a cantor at St. Christopher Church in Wiesbaden. He leads the Schiersteiner Kantorei and the Bach Chamber Orchestra Ensemble Wiesbaden. In 1975 he founded the Wiesbaden Bach Festival and the 1994 Musikherbst Wiesbaden. From 1981 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Mainz. From 1997 to 2003 he taught conducting at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt. Since 2003 he has taught in turn at the Mainz School of Music, the oratorio specialist design and early music. He has performed as a harpsichordist, organist and conductor in France, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Austria, Poland, Portugal, China, Switzerland and the Netherlands. He is also a member of the baroque ensemble Parnassi Musici and Provost Provost Cantor of South Nassau of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau ( EKHN ).

For his artistic life's work, he was, among other things (1990, together with the Schiersteiner choir ) and the Public Service Medal of the City of Wiesbaden in Gold ( 1997) and Silver ( 1987) awarded the Goethe Medal of the State of Hesse (2007), the Culture Prize of the city of Wiesbaden. The University of Mainz appointed him in 2009 as honorary professor.

Audio

• Radio and CD productions with the Baroque ensemble Parnassi Musici
• Live recordings of concerts Schiersteiner Kantorei
• Organ Music of the Baroque (1976 )
• Festive music for the Saxon Court (1986 )
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C major, Op 20 / Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel